The Efficacy of Daily Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS): A Randomized Controlled Single-blind Study

Background: Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a burning oral sensation without any corresponding abnormal findings. In some cases, BMS is refractory to pharmacologic treatments. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over left prefrontal cortex induces analgesic effect in both acute and c...

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Main Authors: Yojiro Umezaki, Bashar W. Badran, William H. DeVries, Jkeonye Moss, Theresa Gonzales, Mark S. George
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X15012152